You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
ANNE LAMOTTChurches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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